Beer: Ratings & Reviews

Reviews by MarcGetty:

Floris Apple by Brouwerij Huyghe is one of my all-time favorite beers so I picked up a single Floris Framboise to sample. While not disappointed it's not on my top ten favorites either.

Compared to the much more famous Lindeman's Framboise the drinkability of Floris Framboise is much higher as it is not as tart and I easily finished a glass without a wince. It's a good drink but far from great.

Poring Floris Framboise into a glass yelided almost zero head and it remained flat through the drink. The smell is more tart then the taste and not something I look forward to.

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Originally reviewed on October 24, 2006. Incredibly volatile bold flash of raspberry liquer and stinging raspberry candy syrup. A little fake to me, but probably just concentrated. Never an aroma so bold. Not a smidgen beer-like. Pour of deer blood and rose water. Rimmed in pink. Flavor is a destructively cloying sugar smack. A mouthful of cheap hard candy and more sugar. And more sugar. All in a very gross overbearing fruit flavor. This is pure fufu juice. Nasty. Long smack of the same flavors.

The bubbles are pretty sedate, and little more, the body a sturdy medium weight, bolstered by that sugar syrup essence endemic to these types of offerings, and smooth by the same measure. It finishes sweet, but not cloyingly so, as the balanced nature of the titular fruit starts to show some support.

We all know what we're getting into with this type of thing - that said, this is one of the better versions from this brewer - the raspberry does vary from candy to the actual fruit in its disposition, which at least provides a nice nostalgic ride from childhood through, um, well a different part of it. Anyways, tasty for what it is, which admittedly has very little to do with 'normal' beer.

A nice red color noticed right away , pink around the edges when up to the light.

pours with a pink hue to the head , which leave a little lace but not a lot.

smell is noticed at the first pour , sweet raspberry . Almost to much right away but does mellow out some.

tasted as I would expect after smell and appearance . Sweet raspberry , slight tartness but not a whole lot I think there should be more , but it is drinkable. I think I will try this one at a little colder temp. , seems like the kind of drink that should be served colder.

Had a little oily mouth feel , I'm assuming this is from the juice used.

Pours a reddish color with a purple hue, with a small light pink head that settled into a light ring. The aroma is of sweet-tart raspberries and muted spices. The raspberry flavor hits right away and delivers a sweet-tart blast which doesn't linger for too long. This is followed by some light coriander spice and wheat malt. The flavor finishes quite clean, no flavors lingering. Light body with fairly soft carbonation; finishes sweet but not cloying. Strong fruit flavors dominate this beer. There is some spice but the raspberries take center stage. A nice change of pace beer but not something I would want to have more than one of in a given night.

There's a very raspberry appearance to this beer, though that seems appropriate. Purplish red hue sits just under a bright white head that was thin and fizzy.

The scent is all raspberry but it seems very real. Perhaps on steroids the aromas are one dimensional but very sweet and clean.

The taste is incredibly sweet raspberry but with an earthy grain. No malt to speak of the taste is all raspberry and hyped up in flavor. It's reminiscent of the Smirnoff Ice drinks but has a touch of real raspberry and not so artificial.

I had this at a Beer School that featured fruit beers and as bad as it is there were far more women who found this impressive than men but I absolutely enjoyed this and would search it out again.

A: Pours a cranberry red color with a thin tan head with reddish hues.

S: Nice fresh raspberries for aroma.

T: Flavor is tart raspberries, very rich and clean and tart. Flavor fades nicely. Juice-like texture with some berry residue. Raspberries are big and fresh and stand out providing a nice tart sourness for a finish with some acidity. Big fruitiness but not much complexity overall.

M: light and fruity with warming berries on the tongue.

D: fruity, and a decent drink as a single. good flavor but a little to sweet for multiples.

This beer poured an odd color for a framboise. It was a dark cabernet-like purple color rather than a raspberry red, and the huge frothy head was a lighter shade of that same purple color. It was a nice looking beer, just different from what I was expecting. For as big as the head was, it dissipated quickly and left virtually no lacing on the glass. The smell was all raspberry. The lable says "brewed with spices and juice of raspberry" but I couldn't smell anything besides the overpowering raspberry aroma.

The taste is a mix of both sweet and tart raspberry flavors with the
sweet flavors dominating. I kept searching for some kind of spice taste since the lable claims spice is part of the brew but I couldn't find any. All I get is a medium to highly carbonated raspberry soda like flavor. There are no other flavors to speak of either. I couldn't detect any malt, spice, or hops - just sweet and sour raspberry. Not a very complex beer.

At 3.7% abv it's easy to drink but you wouldn't know it was a beer unless somebody told you. The finish is sweet as is the aftertaste. OK I guess if you like raspberries, but there are better Belgian fruit beers out there with more character.

As usual, the brewery Floris us a very sweet beer that bears no resemblance to a real beer. Body and lacking balance, nose and mouth aggressive fruit syrup and complete absence of elements a beer, that is to say, the presence of hops or malt. Getting closer to a soft-drink very sweet.

A: Bright cherry red with a slight orange tinge, a little brown hue when held to some lights. Slightly cloudy, can’t really see any carbonation, and not any head, a slight whitish pink foam disappears before you can say ‘eh’.

T: Raspberries, lilac perfume, sweet, sour, then a punch of beer like yeast sour, and all the aforementioned flavours linger on your tongue as a scented memory, as the intensity of the flavours finish quickly, but their spirit in the form of a scent remains.

O: I really like this one and find it uber refreshing on this hot day. Very true to its raspberry flavours which are in balance of sweet and sour, it feels light due to its dry quick finnish and appropriate carbonation, making it very refreshing and desirable to return for each sip. Great by itself, it would go well with cheesecake.

Pours cloudy dark copper pink color with purple accents leading to a 1 tan head that faded very quickly and left minimal lacing.

Smells of strong raspberries, red wine, dark pureed fruit like a mix of raspberry, strawberry, blueberry and kiwi, with a mild funk and a sweetness overload that has some medicinal element pop through.

Nose was way too sweet, and the flavor followed suit with just an obnoxious amount of some sweetened concentrated raspberry concoction that was tart with a brown sugar and/or candied sugar blast that negated any nice funky or malty tastes that were just coated with what seemed to me like an artificial raspberry sweetener.

Mouthfeel is thin, light and watery, but I’ll end things now by stating I did not like this at all and could not finish the whole bottle as it was too sweet for my liking, even for a raspberry fruit beer.

This is a very tasty and drinkable lambic. The tartness level is what really sets it apart from many others. I had to fight my wife for the glass so I could have it long enough to complete this review.

I got this thinking I was getting a lambic. I was definitely wrong. Pours a raspberry red color with a bubbly pinkish head that maintains itself. Lots of bubbles racing to the top. Aroma is sweet, really sweet. Raspberries are basically all I'm getting but its definitely raspberry juice. There is a bit of a vinegar and yeast sour flavor that's the only saving grace. Unfortunately those flavors got dominated in taste. All raspberry juice. It seems like sugar was added to raspberry juice in here. Maybe they put some candi sugar in here. I don't mind sweet beers but this was ridiculous. Wine cooler?